I put these words out there to some online friends the other day. As if they did not know this already. But unless someone close to you or close to someone you love has taken their life, I’m not sure you can really know the true depth of it’s suckage. Some good friends here…
Blogging Lives On…
I have been reading blogs for almost as long as I have been writing one. I started writing here (or, at alguires.blogpost.com) in November of 2006. Then a year later I found OTHER blogs through a friend of a friend. Mind. Blown. (I was so cute back then, figured only 10 other people were blogging…
Growing Things & #HappyMamaSummer $125 Giveaway!
The boys’ school planted a garden back in the Spring and K and I went to assist on the day the soon-to-be pepper, tomato and zucchini squash plants went into the prepared earth. It was really great to see all the kids, teachers and some parents (even grandparents) working on it together. A few tomato plants were…
I’m Giving Something Away – A Wood Watch!
I have not worn a watch in YEARS. The battery died in a lovely watch Tim gave me for an anniversary or a birthday many moons ago (I cannot remember, sorry honey, I do not have a memory like an elephant like you…) and I never got it replaced. So, I just stopped wearing a…
Reality Bites
Do you remember that movie? It was a classic 90’s movie, complete with Winona Ryder. Also, it came out 20 years ago. Let the feeling-old feelings commence. Reality does kind of bite right now though, mostly because of this. And just a little because Tim and I recently returned to reality, after an amazing time…
Dumb Stuff
Everything seems dumb right now. Really, it just seems numb AND dumb. Yesterday on the drive home from Dallas, after my brother-in-law’s two memorial services on Sunday, Tim mentioned something – the Thai restaurant where we used to meet my mother-in-law and brother-in-law for dinner a lot. I lost it. Brian was not my…
Won’t you?
I walked into the kitchen to turn out the light and approached the sink to put in my empty glass. Darkness filled the room and I looked through the window over the sink to make sure the outside light was on, over the driveway. Tim was gone again. And not for good reason. I noticed movement…
What I Hear
Their footsteps as they “tap tap” down the hallway until they reach my side of the bed and say, “Mommy?” The little pads and toes of their feet that I helped create bring them to me. The sizzle of the bacon as it crisps up on the griddle while the sun streams in the kitchen…
We’ll Always Have Paris – Review & Giveaway!
When I was growing up my parents dragged me and my brothers all over the Western United States. I remember one drive in the middle of Arizona in which we did not meet another car for miles and miles as the burnt orange landscape surrounded us and the two-lane road that stretched on and on…
Thoughts From a Mother Whose Kids Are About To Be Out of School
So yeah, school ends for all of my children by Friday. How excited are we? WHEE!! I know they could use a break from the routine but I am not so sure I can survive it. Here it what is going through my head right now as the end is near… Oh yay! I can…